Frances Barber

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1958-05-13 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Frances Barber

Biography

Frances Barber (née Brookes, born 13 May 1958) is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays Camille (1985), and Uncle Vanya (1997). Her film appearances include three collaborations with Gary Oldman in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), We Think the World of You (1988) and Dead Fish (2005); as well as Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987); Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992); and latterly Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017). Barber's numerous television credits include The Street (2009), Doctor Who (2011), Silk (2012–2014), and Whitstable Pearl (2021–2022).

Acting

1998

Still Crazy

as Lady in Black

1985

A Zed & Two Noughts

as Venus de Milo

2005

Goal!

as Carol Harmison

2007

Goal II: Living the Dream

as Carol Harmison

1987

Prick Up Your Ears

as Leonie Orton

2000

Shiner

as Georgie

1994

Fish Tale

as Helen Wormsley

2008

King Lear

as Goneril

2005

Dead Fish

as S & M Prostitute

1999

The Escort

as Jessica

1994

Giorgino

as Marie

1995

3 Steps to Heaven

as Andrea Wallis

1991

2013

May I Kill U?

as Bernice

2001

Superstition

as Isabella Flores

2003

Flyfishing

as Frances

1985

White City

as Alice

1988

2002

1997

Photographing Fairies

as Beatrice Templeton

2024

Hamlet

as First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown

1986

Castaway

as Sister Saint Winifred

1998

Tea

as Woman

1993

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

as Miss Trumble

1982

1991

Hancock

as Freddie Hancock

2004

Evilenko

as Fenja Evilenka

2014

Bucky

as Miss Eversham

1992

The Leaving of Liverpool

as Ellen, Lil's Mother

2015

Mr. Holmes

as Matinee "Madame Schirmer"

1982

The Missionary

as Mission Girl

2012

We'll Take Manhattan

as Diana Vreeland

1999

Plastic Man

as Louise Ferman

1997

A Royal Scandal

as Lady Jersey

2013

2018

Blue Iguana

as Princess

2016

The Chosen

as Natalia Sedova

2018

The Escape

as Alison

2017

The Bookshop

as Jessie Welford

1983

A Flame to the Phoenix

as Wanda Grabinska

2018

An Ideal Husband

as Mrs. Cheveley

2000

Esther Kahn

as Rivka Kahn

2018

The Queen and I

as Princess Margaret

2005

His Passionate Bride

as Narrator (voice)

1994

2019

Trick or Treat

as Miss Ferguson

2004

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

as Miss Piggy (voice)

1999

Toy Boys

as Mrs. Chambers

2022

1984

2003

Listening

as Woman

1988

2001

The Gentleman Thief

as Julia Sinclair

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